SYMPOSIA
Don Aronson Memorial Conference Reception
DON ARONSON SYMPOSIUM
2019 RIVIÈRE-FABES SYMPOSIUM
Fadil Santosa, Vladmir Sverak and Peter Olver co-organized a meeting in memory of our colleague Emeritus Professor Don Aronson, held at the University of Minnesota on November 1-2, 2019. The meeting was initially designed to commemorate Don’s life and contributions to mathematics, and thereby celebrate 70 years of analysis at the University of Minnesota. After Don’s untimely death, the meeting included a Memorial in the Math Library on the Friday afternoon after the talks ended, with Don’s family, friends and colleagues in attendance. The distinguished speakers at the meeting were, in order of appearance, Luis Caffarelli, University of Texas, Svitlana Mayboroda, University of Minnesota, Fanghua Lin, Courant Institute, John Mallet-Paret, Brown University, Nancy Kopell, Boston University, Sigurd Angenent, University of Wisconsin. Talks were uniformly excellent. The participants and guests greatly benefited from the talks and social interactions, and the opportunity to celebrate Don’s long and distinguished career at the University of Minnesota.
The 2019 annual Rivière-Fabes Symposium was held from April 12-14, 2019. Distinguished speakers included: Guy David, Jonathan Luk, Eugenia Malinnikova and Juncheng Wei. Some of the main topics discussed this year at the symposium included: Elliptic measure with a lower dimensional boundary, The strong cosmic censorship conjecture in general relativity, Two questions of Landis and their applications, and On Gluing Method I: Type II Blow-up for Fujita Equation in Matano-Merle Regime, On Gluing Method II: Second Order Estimates of Allen-Cahn Equation.
ORDWAY VISITOR Professor Arnoldo Frigessi (University of Oslo) was a 1-week Ordway visitor at the School of Mathematics from December 1st to December 8th, 2019. He gave talks and did research on computational modeling approaches to oncology and machine learning during his visit. Dr. Frigessi’s research interests are in data science and statistics - including particular focus areas Markov Chain Monte Carlo and Bayesian inference, personalized medicine and mechanistic cancer modeling. He is the director of the Oslo Center for Biostatistics and Epidemiology, and also the director of the Oslo data science institute, BigInsight. He is a member of the Royal Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters and Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences.
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MULTISCALE MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA CONFERENCE A conference on Multiscale Mathematical Modeling of Biological Phenomena was held on May 20-22, 2019 at the School of Mathematics. The conference centered around topics influenced by the contributions of Hans Othmer, and brought together mathematical biologists from all over the world specializing in multiscale modeling techniques. Biological applications ranged from signal transduction, cell polarization and cell movement to tissue organization, development and cancer. Conference organizers include: Jasmine Foo, Yoichiro Mori, and Duane Nykamp; it was supported in part by the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) through its Participating Institution (PI) Program. More detail, including speaker abstracts can be found at https://sites.google.com/umn.edu/mmbio/schedule .
SPRING 2020
